Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Saturday urged U.S. President Barack Obama not to order an attack on Iran.
Castro made the remarks at a special session of the Cuban parliament discussing the "main threats to mankind."
"Leaders of the world's most powerful countries -- allies or adversaries, with the exception of Israel -- would agree with me and urge President Obama to avoid the aggression," said Castro.
If President Obama gives the order, "he would be ordering the immediate deaths of hundreds of millions of people, including an untold number of
people in his homeland and the crews of all the U.S. fleet in the waters around Iran," Castro said.
"Simultaneously the war would break out in the near and the far East and throughout Eurasia," he said, warning that the present world order
established on the planet would collapse.
The former leader, who turns 84 on Aug. 13, stood with his brother Raul, the current Cuban leader, in his traditional olive green uniform but without
military insignias.